Honkai Impact 3rd: Starting with creating an anime version of Honkai Impact 3rd

"……you're right."

Chapter 160 Kosmo, Stay Away from Bad Women

Rita summons a scythe to destroy the enemy.

A man in a black robe and wearing a metal mask stood out strangely at night, holding a pure black umbrella. His single, blood-red eye stared at Rita, who had taken out a scythe.

"Come out, little girl."

"Huh? It's not Snake Sister?!" Pato exclaimed in surprise.

"The voice sounds familiar." Kevin recognized the slightly static voice very well, but he just couldn't place it.

“Yaqing’s voice,” Mei said.

"Yes, yes, I knew that sounded so familiar."

"The Gray Serpent is Ya Qing? Then he must be related to Mebius!"

"Hey, don't drag me into everything!"

Rita asked Gray Snake about Kiana's whereabouts, and when Gray Snake asked about the reward, Rita took the opportunity to threaten him.

Unfortunately, the gray snake never cared about other people's threats. To him, death was just the beginning of the next deal, and the snake would not succumb to death.

Rita didn't say much, but acted immediately, killing the gray snake with her scythe. Before the snake was killed, she said, "You made a mistake... Now... you are also in the snake's eye."

More like a deathbed curse than a final message.

Rita took out a silk handkerchief from her bosom and wiped the bloodstains off the scythe. She turned around and re-examined the gray snake in the pool of blood.

"Is death the beginning of the next deal?"

“You’re right, Mr. Grey Snake.”

"You have no choice but to accept this deal."

The camera gradually zooms out, revealing a street camera silently observing everything. The zoom out only extends to the screen where a little girl is seen clutching a black rabbit doll, staring in terror at the murder scene.

"Ya Qing is leaving the stage already? What's the difference between her appearance and that of a passerby?" Kevin asked, puzzled.

“What if he’s just a random passerby? It’s just that the voice actor is Ya Qing, not that the voice actor has to be based on him,” Mei explained.

"Rita is indeed a bad woman; she kills people without hesitation." Pato was frightened.

"Sister Pado, this is all fiction." Ling put on a mature act to comfort Pado, who was older than her.

“However, I’m more curious about what the gray snake meant by the last thing it said. Could the snake’s eye refer to what the little girl saw through the surveillance camera in the last shot?” Wilwei analyzed carefully.

Unfortunately, no one answered her question.

"Elegant, so very elegant." Xiao Shi's eyes shone brightly, but unlike Kiana's wolfish gleam, the light in her eyes was pure, filled only with envy.

The scene flashes back to the other side, where Bronya is the first to enter the story. She is talking to Theresa, and they are also searching for the Grey Serpent.

Looking at the bustling metropolis, Mei couldn't help but marvel at the prosperity of Sky City.

Theresa sighed and explained to Mei the sorrow beneath the prosperity.

As the number of Honkai Beasts increased, people were forced to abandon their homes and migrate to major cities around the world, causing cities to grow larger and larger until they developed into megacities.

"Such a big city... Kiana, I will definitely find you." Mei's resolve hardened.

Theresa knew full well that this deal was extremely risky, but it was also their only clue to finding Kiana, and she was willing to try, no matter the risk.

"Headmaster, we've arrived."

"It's too quiet, something's not right. Everyone on high alert!"

"Little brother, tell me, how far have things progressed between Kiana and that little girl named Mei?" Cecilia asked curiously.

Cecilia's words piqued Bianca's curiosity. Since Kiana went to study in the Far East, she had rarely seen her sister and was eager to know about her sister's condition.

"How would I know about love stories between little girls? Sister, you'd be better off asking little Xilin or Theresa." How could Yaqing possibly know about love between little girls?

"Uncle, is little Kiana in love?" Durandal asked.

“Little Bianca, not to mention Kiana, your uncle is in love too~” Cecilia laughed.

“I know, Rita sent me photos.”

Upon arriving at the rendezvous point, Theresa and her companions found only a pile of mechanical wreckage and lifeless, lying corpses of Gray Serpent imposters. Before they could even react, they heard an alarm sounding, ordering them to refrain from any violent actions.

Bronya hacked into the channel, turned off the alarm, and used her hacking skills to examine Gray Serpent's body. She concluded that the killer wasn't after money, but rather wanted the intelligence Gray Serpent possessed.

"The killer murdered Gray Serpent and took away the bio-components used for authentication, such as the electronic prosthetic eye..." Bronya found a bio-chip on the inside of Gray Serpent's wrist, which allowed her to enter Gray Serpent's territory and obtain intelligence.

Theresa firmly rejected Bronya's proposal. Such blatant killing in Sky City could only mean that Schicksal had intervened. They were currently traitors to Schicksal, and every minute they stayed in the city increased their danger.

Bronya knows what it feels like to be manipulated and controlled, to lose yourself.

"Kiana is suffering the same pain now, and Bronya must rescue Kiana no matter what..."

After listening to Bronya's words, Theresa agreed.

“Principal Theresa’s scheming is no match for Otto’s. She didn’t realize it was a trap and just waited for them to fall in,” Fu Hua said bluntly.

"Old fogey, you can't say that. Although it's a fictional story, it's still based on reality. Besides, who can outmaneuver that old schemer Otto?" Xiao Shi's words were even more hurtful than Fu Hua's.

"Bronya, I never imagined you loved me so much. I promise I'll never steal your hidden pudding again." Kiana was so moved she almost cried.

Bronya's face darkened.

"Paramecium, you really did steal my pudding!" Bronya reached out to grab Kiana, but Seele hugged her waist tightly. She said, "Seele, let go of me! I'm going to teach her a lesson!"

Seele was utterly helpless.

Bronya, if you really wanted to "teach Kiana a lesson," why were you slapping my thigh so hard with your other hand?

Seele closed her eyes, smiled maliciously, and released her arms from Bronya.

Bronya was astonished.

"Bronya, go ahead, Seele will always be behind you." Seele tilted her head, looking incredibly cute.

Mei watched the two bickering and smiled to herself.

"Bronya, stop fooling around. I'll make you pudding tomorrow, okay?"

"Yay! Long live Mei!" Kiana exclaimed excitedly.

If this were a public ticketed cinema, there would probably have been complaints long ago. However, everyone in this cinema knew each other and they were already aware of Kiana's troublesome nature, so they didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

“Sky City? I remember, isn’t that Ahua’s hometown?” Pado, who was a purchasing agent, was very good at intelligence work. He knew the information of everyone in the courtyard like the back of his hand.

"Yes, that's right, the Hua family still runs a martial arts school."

After killing the gray snake, Rita was reporting the mission progress to Otto on a dimly lit street. The eerie blue light made the atmosphere even more strange in the night.

Besides offering "after-sales service" to Gray Serpent, what Rita cared about most was Gray Serpent's last words before he died: "Now... you are also in the eye of the serpent."

“This guy is the World Serpent’s agent planted in Sky City.” Otto told Rita not to worry, he would handle the World Serpent’s affairs personally. Rita’s move to kill the Gray Serpent had put the game on the board in a dead end.

"Rita, you should have been prepared for this, right?"

When Otto asked her question, Rita smiled slightly and explained to him that a dead end was exactly the result she wanted.

Gray Serpent's electronic devices all required electronic components to open, but she didn't have time to try them one by one, nor could she forcefully crack the devices. So she had no choice but to take the original components and devices with her, cutting off Theresa and the others' chance to obtain information from the corpses.

The whereabouts of the Herrscher of the Void, such important information, must have been backed up at the base. In order to lure Theresa into a trap, Rita even left something behind, namely the authentication chip on the inside of her wrist.

"Among the traitors in the Far East branch is a top hacker—Bronya Zaychek."

She left a decoy, letting the Far East branch deal with the enemies at the stronghold for her. At the last moment after obtaining the intelligence, she would strike, and then she would not only find out the whereabouts of the Herrscher of the Void, but also capture Theresa and the others in one fell swoop.

“Oh, brilliant deduction, but deduction is just deduction. We still need to see if Theresa can act as you expect.” Otto clapped his hands, praising Rita’s plan.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured, I will set up an ambush near the Gray Serpent's stronghold and wait for them to take the bait."

"Rita, you actually schemed against me?!" Theresa looked at Rita, who was sitting in the front row, with disbelief on her face.

“Lady Theresa, this isn’t a scheme. After all, we’re adversaries in the story. I can’t disobey Bishop Otto’s orders, and all I’m thinking of is taking you back.” Rita’s smile was different from Otto’s, and it didn’t evoke any ill will in people.

In the last row, Kosmo watched the movie quietly.

Beside him sat a girl he had never seen before, full of life, with long, smooth, golden hair tied in a side ponytail. She wore a beige shirt over a black vest, a black and red plaid mini skirt that reached her thighs, black stockings, and small leather shoes.

"Kosmo, with your taciturn nature, you must stay far away from these kinds of bad women in the future. Don't let them fool you. It's one thing to be scammed out of money, but you can't be scammed yourself..."

The girl looked very serious.

"..." Kosmo remained silent for a long time before finally managing to utter a single word: "Okay."

Kosmo wanted to say that he had seen far too many bad women. If he really went around them, he probably wouldn't even be able to go home. For example, Alicia, Mebius, Vervi, and... does Mebius count?

Central Europe.

"A very clever approach." This was Otto's approval.

“Rita is completely different from Bianca. She’s shrewd and capable. Whoever becomes the next president, she can assist them well.” Otto nodded.

"So... that's why you sent Rita to the Far East?" Kallen mumbled, her mouth stuffed with popcorn, just like Kiana. No wonder they were both from the same Kaslana clan.

"Karen, finish eating before you talk," Otto said affectionately.

"Hmm..." Karen swallowed before speaking, "Rita, I've met her. She has some strange relationship with Bianca. Doesn't this count as breaking them up?"